105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Wadley Holdings, LLC

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wadley Holdings, LLC, 134 Clay Street, WADLEY, ALABAMA 36276 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was using the "button machine" to crimp pieces of fabric around buttons. One of the pieces of fabric was off center and the employee reached under the guard to slide the fabric back into place. The employee pressed the foot pedal that operates the machine while her hand was still in the machine and amputated the right index fingertip and fractured the right middle finger.

Hospitalized Amputation Fingertip(s) Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.

Pall Corporation

An employee was operating a machine when a wire pulled his right glove resulting in amputation of the index and middle fingertips.

Koch Foods of Cincinnati

An employee was grinding chicken when their right index fingertip was caught in the grinder and amputated.

Stella-Jones Corporation

An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.

Mack Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee was passing through a large metal door when the door closed on the employee, resulting in a cracked rib.

Nutmeg Container Corporation

An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Windward Outdoor, LLC

An employee was operating a hydraulic machine to bend hollow aluminum approximately 1 inch in diameter when the machine pinched his finger. The employee sustained a right index fingertip amputation.

Edsal Manufacturing Company, Inc.

On November 19, 2020, a maintenance employee was assisting other employees to move equipment from one company location to another. The employees loaded several pieces of fencing/guardrails and a welding machine onto the forks of a forklift. The employees then backed the welder into the trailer and drove several blocks away. Upon reaching the facility, the employees parked the trailer at a dock that had an approximate 15 degree incline. The injured employee went into the trailer to retrieve the equipment and found the fencing had shifted between the welder and the forklift. As the employee attempted to remove the fencing, the forklift began rolling forward striking and pinning the employee between the welder frame and the forklift. The employee sustained fractures and a concussion from the impact of the forklift and was hospitalized.

Metal Box International, Inc.

An employee was operating a shear when it came down on the employee's fingers, resulting in amputations to the left index and ring fingers. The guard was in the up position at the time of the incident.

JAJ Contract Furniture Inc

An employee suffered an amputation as a result of a workplace incident.

Metal Box International, Inc.

An employee slipped while retrieving a part that had fallen off a suspended conveyor in the parts washing area. The employee's right foot was submerged into a phosphoric acid cleaning solution resulting in burns to his right ankle and 1/2 way up his calf.

Sysco Gulf Coast, LLC

An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Norflex, Inc.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

Ampler Pizza II LLC

An employee was shot in the leg with a pistol during an altercation with two people who had entered the store without permission.

Birdsong Corporation

An employee was directing a truck driver to a dump site when the truck's peanut trailer slipped off the kingpin. As the trailer fell, a ladder attached to it lacerated the employee's ear. The employee was hospitalized.

Pilgrims

An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.